Monthly Archives: November 2013
November 2 in 1 Crossword
Choose from the Cryptic Crossword or the Quick Crossword. The grid is the same but the clues and the answers are different.
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November Sudoku
Place a number from 1 to 9 in each empty cell so that each 3×3 block, column, and full row includes each of the numbers from 1 to 9 only once.
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The Flight of the Golden Bird and other Stories of a Lifetime
There have been several compilations of Scottish stories over the years but this one is rather special. It is not just  a collection of stories, but of morals and attitudes, of the lessons that children learn about right and wrong … Continue reading
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Campania – Collision – Calamity
When the people of Edinburgh, the Lothians and Fife awoke on the morning of Saturday 6th November 1918 they found word in their tight-packed, crowded columns of their newspapers that victory in the four year long First World War was … Continue reading
Song of the 8 Winds
Don’t panic! This is not a weather forecast. East Lothian author Peter Kerr has turned aside from the light hearted style that won him such acclaim for the (loosely) autobiographical Mallorcan Snowball Oranges series and the wacky Scottish Bob Burns series and … Continue reading
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Eat, Pray, Laugh!
Barry Humphries is having a farewell tour. He is certainly not everage, as they might say in Morningside. How many 79 year olds do you know who could cavort, bitch and sing their way through two and a half hours … Continue reading
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